and he has been very involved in the fiscal cliff negotiations. and before he was a center, but before he was a senator, he was the governor of virginia. and steve case, chairman of the case foundation, a co-founder of america online, a rabbit twitterer -- and i feel like i know every detail of your life, steve, had a relentless proponent on entreneurship. each panelists get sick 5-7 minutes -- each panelist gets a five-seven minutes to discuss the topic, and we will have a conversation, and then we will open that up to you and hopefully get to all of your comments and questions. if we will start with president sullivan. >> thank you. i am delighted to be here this evening because the topic is important panelists are interesting, but also because this conference recognizes mort kaplan, a great benefactor of uva, and i am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on behalf of tonight. we're talking about immigration policy and the ability to extract high skilled immigrants. especially scientists, engineers, business people who contribute to innovati